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Florence Norris mysteries volume 1
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A 1930s housekeeper stars in “an Agatha Christie–like whodunit with touches of Olde World England and a soupçon of romance” (Booklist).
In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her...
In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, 1736. Newly married to a lady of means, musician Charles Patterson is learning to juggle his devotion to his craft with his responsibilities as a gentleman. Meanwhile, Richard Nightingale, a ladder dancer from London, is causing a stir with his flashy performances and flirtatious demeanor. But soon Charles has another complication in his life, as he once again must investigate a murder.
When a child is run down and killed by...
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Phineas T. Barnum's sister must solve a murder in 19th-century New York City in this historical mystery from the author of the Pepper Martin mysteries.
Evie Barnum oversees her brother's American Museum, a place teeming with scientific specimens and "human prodigies" including a bearded woman and the lizard man. In this weird and whacky workplace, Evie hopes she can easily bury her secrets.
But when an old friend shows up and begs for her help, she...
4) Dead Heat
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Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sleuth yet again in the fourth of this fast-paced, highly entertaining racing mystery series.
Champion jockey Harry Radcliffe is reeling from the knowledge that his recent attempt to solve a murder led to horse-box driver John Dunston's suicide. Or did it? A letter handed to Harry at John's funeral suggests all is not as it seems, and Harry is soon plunged into another dangerous investigation....
5) World Enough
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A Boston music journalist-turned-corporate writer investigates the suspicious death of a friend from her punk past in this noir mystery.
The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs-the world she's been part of for the past twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home.
With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not...
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It's a well-known fact that some members of the cancer-survivor support group Hannah Ives works with take marijuana. Recreational use of the drug may be illegal, but a few, like Maryland State Senator Claire Thompson, are prescribed it on medical grounds. Now Claire has co-sponsored a Cannabis Legalization Bill-and wants Hannah to be part of a fact-finding task force that testifies before the Maryland State Senate.
Before long, Hannah is in Denver,...
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The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a cruel joke. After all, the wealthy boutique owner was taken ill and died while daughter Hannah was off having lattes at Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy Thorsen, the coffeehouse's owner, has more pressing things on her mind: a jailbreak and subsequent shoot-out has forced her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to take refuge with her.
Maggy...
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Maggie Miller mysteries volume 3
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Amid the Halloween festivities, one of the Beignet Cafe's customers comes to a sticky end in this entertaining cozy mystery It’s Halloween, and café owner Maggie Miller's special pumpkin spice beignet promotion is proving popular at her café in Table Rock, Arizona, halfway between Sedona and nowhere. But the evening ends in disaster when Maggie discovers the body of one of her regular customers, strangled to death with an expensive cashmere scarf....
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A local reporter discovers murder amid the debris of a Montana mountain fire in this thriller series debut by the author of the Sarah Burke Mysteries.
In Clark's Fort, Montana, a fire on Meredith Mountain burns through Labor Day weekend. It is a terrifying sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams, editor of the Clark's Fort Guardian, is determined to get the whole story with the help of her reporter nephew, Stuart...
10) The River Below
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When a mangled car is pulled from the river, containing bloodstains and a gun, the sense of safety is shattered in Tessa's Californian hometown. Tessa, who works at the river conservancy, thinks she saw a girl out on the riverbank-but Tessa's memory is failing and could this be the start of something more serious?
Tessa's friend and co-worker, Claire Barrett, is worried-about the car and the gun, but also about Tessa. With Tessa's attorney husband...
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Alex Quick novels volume 1
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"When Alexandra Quicks business partner, Dr. Helena Drummond, disappears, Alex investigates, and learns things she never knew about her friend and colleague that make her question if Helena is a victim or a criminal."--Publisher.
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Florence Norris mysteries volume 2
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Suspecting foul play when a mild-mannered villager is found dead, housekeeper Florence Norris investigates a surprise will that reveals dark secrets in the victim's family history.
13) To the last drop
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First, Maggy Thorsen is shocked to find her ex-husband Ted in a fight with William Swope, an oral surgeon at Ted's dental practice, outside Uncommon Grounds, the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse she co-owns. But she's even more horrified to discover Swope's dead body outside Thorsen Dental's office block the next morning. Did he jump from the tenth-floor office window, or was he pushed?
It's not long before Maggy is uncovering disturbing family secrets,...
14) Graveyard shift
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Pepper Martin mysteries volume 10
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In this paranormal murder mystery, psychic medium Pepper Martin is contacted by the ghosts of Eliot Ness and Al Capone. Pepper Martin, now Community Relations Director of Garden View Cemetery, is contacted by the ghost of Eliot Ness, one of Cleveland's most famous dearly departed. According to Ness, the ashes scattered at the ceremony twenty years earlier weren't his. His were stolen prior to the ceremony by a Ness groupie, and he cannot rest until...
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